Some of the most frustrating parts of parenting teenagers are the misunderstandings and

miscommunications, or… when we don’t “get” them.

For example, no matter how many times you explain something, they miss what you mean. Or, when they talk and act in a way that seems completely reasonable in their own thinking, yet the inconsistencies are so obvious to us that it’s hard not to laugh (or cry).

If we could just “get” them, we could understand their (il)logic and communicate in their language. It would be so much easier to help them and prepare them for life both now and in adulthood.Read More